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David Smith

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Fifteen years ago I started a podcast called Developing Perspective. It was “never longer than 15 minutes” and chronicled my journey of becoming an indie app developer. I did that for around four years and then joined up with Marco Arment to do a show on the same topic called Under the Radar . We did that together for…

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Honest In-App Purchases

It is no secret that the vast majority of revenues being made today in the App Store are via consumable based “Free”-to-Play games. These have sat atop the Top Grossing charts for a long time now. Last month at WWDC Apple announced that it had paid out $5 billion in the last year to developers, with clearly much of…